To write. The one I'm on now is more doom-ey for my characters. I feel so mean. This is the chapter where everything falls apart in their lives. I love writing it, though.
Cog's right. I'm usually all too happy to emphasize quality over quantity but with a novel your own self-destructiveness can be the worst problem to overcome. Just do the first draft as quickly as possible, and try to convince yourself that what you are writing is great. There is more than enough time to work on it more later.
Chapter 11, at 75,113 words (It's the first draft so I'm trying to get everything I want to say out then cut most of it in final draft) Very relaxed back chapter, one I have been looking forward to writing...but it's also given a lot of trouble in terms of pacing though ;_;
It's been a while since my last update... or since I've been on here. I am within days of completing the second draft of my novel. The changes between draft 1 and 2 have been huge, and it has been a monster of a task trying to keep it all straight. Every change made causes a chain reaction of changes that have to be dealt with. BUT...it has been so much fun. The characters are better, the dialogue is better, and it just makes more sense overall having corrected major plot holes. I can't wait to see what happens over the next couple drafts. This draft is looking to end up at about 110,000 words while draft one was about 90k... I guess the cutting comes next.
Started my Altransic Assassin thing, in the very middle. It's the scene I wanted to write as of now, but I think I want to start at the beginning to help myself understand why these two girls (the protagonists) are in the situation I put them in. My Santarnica thing...ah...I haven't even come up with a plot yet. :/
I got to 29,500 on project two last night and I'm quite happy with it. I've noticed that this project is blending three other novel ideas I've had running around in my mind for month, so slightly worried, but I"m hoping that it also means that overall, the idea and plot behind it is strong.
Right now I'm focusing on my characters. They need some more "oomph" to them. I have also outlined a few chapters and written about 5K. Hopefully I can touch my word count soon. I'm a very slow developer it seems.
I'm waiting for feedback. A writer I know is reading the new chapters I wrote to expand the ending of my ms. I hadn't planned to initially, but I had similar feedback from a couple of people that the ending seemed too 'hopeless', for want of a better word. I think what I have now works well and ties everything together much better. I've written some new lyrics in the meantime, and one new song last week.
180k into my WIP and I only have two chapters (of fifty) left to write. I started this novel in November and want to get it finished today.
A-working on my Amos Garnier mystery. I figured I'd just skip the beginning and just continue on with the story. I'll patch the beginning up later.
Yoshiko and Link, +rep, awesome progress. 180K? I'm jealous! I'm at 33.6K, will bring it past 34K but probably not by too much as I'm going to be busy running around doing fun stuff, most notably heading to a shooting range. But yeah...Adalyn's just met the 5th and final person who joins her quest group...they were trying to get out of a forest fire but it turned out it was just keep-the-enemy-away fire that had gotten out of hand....
I'd love to read that scene. Just wrote a few more scenes with Amos. Eventually, I'll patch them all together in coherent sense.
Right now I'm just over 2000 words into a short story I'm writing for a course I'm taking. I've established my sea captain character, but I haven't yet gotten into the volcano eruption. I'm actually wondering whether I need to describe the eruption in detail - probably not, but it's my only real action scene so I kind of want to.
I'm at the part in my novel where my MC starts to realise that her friendship is becoming very possessive on her part. Her "fondness" for her new best friend will soon turn into more of an obsession. Sometimes I wish I could go into the future, read my novel once it's finished, and come back again. Just to see if it all turns out how I think it will, and if it's actually any good.
I fail at planning stories. Every time I plan a story I change my mind about one little thing and I waste paper changing that one little thing. But I do have an amazing memory. Every in the plan is in my head and every change I've made is inbedded in my memory. Heck I still remember most of the story I wrote for grade 3 PAT practice. that was like forever ago. So anyways I'm tweeking my plans and stuff to make it near perfect. Now I have to find time to write everything down (It can't be write now I'm in a place that has no word or office and only has stupid notepad with no spell check, I really need to talk to my mother) I'm also drawing my characters to. It gives me a better image of them.
Since I'm a new writer, my chances of being sold or optioned is slim. And so far, all of my ideas suck and I can't even come up with good ideas I can use to put a movie script together. I just try and still look forward in writing screenplay in the future.
183k in and just one chapter (of fifty) left to write! After many chapters of suffering my MC is finally going to get a happy ending with his partner. ♥ I've been looking forward to this chapter since the very beginning of the novel. I'm going to make sure to enjoy writing this as the MC's life is going to go completely downhill in the sequel - it'll be nice to give him a (temporary) happily ever after.
I'm about 85k into a planned 120k fantasy novel. It's by far the furthest I've ever gotten and I think that I'm afraid to finish. Then I have to worry about alpha readers and marketing, which feel like pretty daunting tasks.
